Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of friends. And then there's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
